dammit!! i just got laid off - my s4 dreams are over.
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Life brings unexpected benefits from seemingly bad things; This may bring your S4 dreams closer. . .
An old Chinese story re good and bad fortune summarized:
Wise old farmer finds several wild steeds have come to graze on his farm. His neighbors feel jealous of his good fortune, and he comments that although horses have great value their presence does not make him lucky.
Several days later, the farmer's son severely breaks his leg trying to domesticate one of the wild horses. The neighbors try to console him on the loss of his son during the upcoming harvest to which the farmer replies that his son breaking his leg does not make him unlucky. The neighbors think that the farmer is stupid, because he does not know when he has bad or good fortune.
Several days later, soldiers come and conscript all of the able-bodied young men in the village. They do not conscript the farmer's son due to his broken leg.
The moral of the story: seemingly good luck may bring bad luck (horses cause broken leg), and seemingly bad luck may bring good luck (broken leg prevents conscription).
Thus, do not take the loss of your job as bad luck as it may lead you to a much better job in the future for which you would not have looked but for your unemployment. Job loss happened to me several years ago, it became one of the best things that ever happened to me--I have opened my own office, got married, and had a child since then.
Wise old farmer finds several wild steeds have come to graze on his farm. His neighbors feel jealous of his good fortune, and he comments that although horses have great value their presence does not make him lucky.
Several days later, the farmer's son severely breaks his leg trying to domesticate one of the wild horses. The neighbors try to console him on the loss of his son during the upcoming harvest to which the farmer replies that his son breaking his leg does not make him unlucky. The neighbors think that the farmer is stupid, because he does not know when he has bad or good fortune.
Several days later, soldiers come and conscript all of the able-bodied young men in the village. They do not conscript the farmer's son due to his broken leg.
The moral of the story: seemingly good luck may bring bad luck (horses cause broken leg), and seemingly bad luck may bring good luck (broken leg prevents conscription).
Thus, do not take the loss of your job as bad luck as it may lead you to a much better job in the future for which you would not have looked but for your unemployment. Job loss happened to me several years ago, it became one of the best things that ever happened to me--I have opened my own office, got married, and had a child since then.
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got laid of mid-Oct.